Bird-cage



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW B. HENDRYX, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BIRD-CAGE.

SPEIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,228, dated December20, 1881. Application tuen Augusta, 1ss1. (No model.)

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that l, ANDREW B. HENDRYX, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State ot' Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inBird-Cages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part otl this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical central section; Fig. 2, a top view with the ringremoved; Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, the parts of the tip detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in bird-cages, with specialreference to the construction of the tip or crowning ornament. This tipis made from sheet metal and necessarily hollow, and ai'ords a resortfor vermin which cannot be readily reached for cleansing, as it ispermanently attached to the cage.

The object of this invention is to so construct the tip that it may betaken in parts and readily cleansed and it consists in the constructionof the parts detachably connected to the cage, as more fully hereinafterdescribed.

A represents the ring at the center of the dome, to which the severalwires a are connected in the usual manner.v Upon the inside is anelastic disk, B, the outer edge ot which rests upon the inside of thering A, and on the top of which stands the tip D. The shape of the tipand base C, on which the tip rests, is immaterial. They are made fromsheet metal, hollow.

E is a rod running centrally up through a hole in the disk B, andthrough the tip at the top; it has a head, c, or other suitable deviceat its lower end, bearing upon the under side of the disk; at its upperend is a transverse pin,f. (See Fig. 5.) In the upper end of the tip isa perforation for the rod to pass through, and slots h, through whichthe pinfwill pass; but the length ofthe rod between the head c and thepin fis slightly less than the distance between the lower side of thedisk B and the top of the tip, but so that by compressing the disk thepin f will pass through the slots h h above the end of the tip andpermit the rod to be turned, say, one-fourth around, as seen in Fig. 2,and in that position come into depressions t, as seen in Fig. 7, in thesurface of the tip, the reaction ofthe disk B drawing the pin into thosedepressions, so as to prevIest the rod or tip from being accidentallyturned to bring the pinfand slots h into line. This secures the partsrmly together; and when it is desired to separate them for cleansing,press upward upon the disk B to raise the pin ffrom the depressions i;then turn the rod or tip until the pin comes into line with the slots hh. Then the rod willgdrop through the tip, and the parts separated andtaken from the cage may be thoroughly cleansed and returned to place.

While I prefer to employ the elastic disk B, that disk may be rigid anda spring introduced between the head of the rod E and the disk. strengthgreater than the weight of the cage, in order that in lifting orsuspending the cage the rod may not be drawn upward, as it would he werethe spring lighter than the weight ol the cage. Y

The tip and base mayr be made in a single In that case the spring mustbe of 7o piece. By the term tip, then, I wish to be uuderstood asmeaning the crowning ornament ot the cage.

Instead ot a disk, B, a har across the opening may be employed, as it isnot essential that that opening in the tip should be entirely closed;yet it is preferable that it should be. By the term disk 7 I thereforewish to be understood as meaning any device across the opening of thetop ot' the cage to which the tip is secured.

I am aware that it is not new to make articles in sections anddetachably secure them together by means of a central stud on one partextending through another part, and therefore do not claim such as myinvention.

I claim- In a bird-cage, the combination ot' the disk B across theopening in the top inside the cage, the tip resting on the top ot' thecage, the rod E extending through said disk, and

so as to take a beariugthereon upward through the tip, provided at itsupper end with a transverse pin, f, the said tip constructed with aslot, h, through which saidpiu may pass and then be turned across saidslot, substantially as described.

ANDREW B. HENDRYX.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, LILLIAN D. ROGERS.

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